Sentences with phrase «for ethanol made from corn»

Many people have high hopes for ethanol made from corn — that it will prevent future gasoline shortages, prevent global warming, be a wonderful investment, and improve the income of farmers, among other things.

The Scientific American reports that roughly 40 percent of today's corn crop is used for ethanol made from corn, which is added to gasoline.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

«Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn Ethanol made from miscanthus would need a much smaller carbon price to make it desirable to produce and for consumers to purchase as compared to ethanol from switchgrass and corn ethanol from switchgrass and corn stover.

Speaking of a bio-based economy, did the push for biofuels like ethanol from corn make farming's problems worse?

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

For years we've been promised the next generation of biofuels, made from waste cellulose, but we have yet to see it replace corn ethanol.

David Pimentel, a professor of ecology at Cornell University who has been studying grain alcohol for 20 years, and Tad Patzek, an engineering professor at the University of California, Berkeley, co-wrote a recent report that estimates that making ethanol from corn requires 29 percent more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel itself actually contains.

Just growing corn and preserving it in a salt mine forever whilst making gasoline from coal or natural gas will even capture far more carbon than using it for ethanol does.

For instance, how is changing all our oil dependency to ethanol made from corn going to solve our crisis.

If someone wants to buy field corn (that's what they make ethanol from,) they can buy All They Want, today, for $ 0.06 / lb.

I was reminded of Canute's story when considering the latest Environmental Protection Agency numbers for cellulosic ethanol — a hoped - for alternative to corn - based ethanol made from switchgrass and wood chips.

(For context, the price of a gallon of processed ethanol made from corn is now $ 2.40 a gallon.)

By playing up jingoistic fears of «energy dependence,» King Corn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlCorn has convinced the Congress that ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlcorn, is a national security imperative, despite the fact that it increases gas prices, it's awful for the environment, it contributes to asthma, and it makes food costlier.

For almost a decade, the Senate Ag Committee has been the primary benefactor of ethanol, a fuel made from corn.

(Note that the study did not look at first generation biofuels made from tropical crops like sugarcane or sweet sorghum which reduce emissions far more than corn ethanol; for sugarcane ethanol, the reduction is as large as that of cellulosic biofuels, earlier post.)